On Wednesday, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called on Ukraine to help mend ties between the two nations after Kyiv rejected a visit from German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
“It is a problem for the German government and for the German people that the president was asked not to come,” Scholz said. “Ukraine must also play its part.”
Earlier this week, Scholz said he wouldn’t visit Kyiv after Steinmeier was rejected, prompting Ukraine’s ambassador to Germany to say the chancellor was acting like an “offended liver sausage.”
Ukrainian officials had said Steinmeier wasn’t welcome in Ukraine due to his alleged close ties to Russia. Steinmeier was a proponent of the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline that would connect Russia and Germany, which is enough for Ukraine to label him pro-Russian.
Scholz suspended the Nord Stream 2 pipeline when Russian President Vladimir Putin recognized the breakaway republics of Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region, which came just before the Russian invasion.
While Scholz hasn’t visited Ukraine since Russia invaded, one of his political rivals made the trip this week in a move seen as a snub of the German leader. Friedrich Merz, the leader of Germany’s Christian Democrats, visited the Ukrainian city of Irpin on Tuesday.
Scholz has come under intense domestic pressure for his hesitance to send heavy arms into Ukraine, although his government has since pledged to provide Kyiv with Gepard anti-aircraft tanks. Responding to his critics, Scholz warned of the dangers of the risks of nuclear war.
Scholz must pay obeisance to the great Zelensky, the Ozimandias of the moment, in his capital on the banks of the Dniepr.
The $35 million mansion owner (in South Florida), with $1.2 billion in Costa Rican banks.
You mean there’s an inkling of a 2-way relationship required? I thought it was fine for Germany to always deal with the worst of the messes everyone else makes: waves of refugees, economic turmoil, military costs, and diplomatic slights to name a few of the nightmares they are experiencing. Germany might have a spine after all.
Germany unfortunately is fearful of making any decisions that might upset Big Brother.
Earlier this week, Scholz said he wouldn’t visit Kyiv after Steinmeier was rejected, prompting Ukraine’s ambassador to Germany to say the chancellor was acting like an “offended liver sausage.”
You can really talk sh*t when you know the superpower is pretending to be your ally. Squashing Nord Stream and providing weapons isn’t enough for the twit ambassador. A big “go fu*k yourself” should be forthcoming but Germany has to worry about kissing that same superpower’s a$$ lest it feels its wrath.
This stuff has really gone to the Ukies’ head … what, they think they’ll remain the flavor of the month forever? Don’t they know they’ll be abandoned as soon as their utility to empire is done? And then they’ll have to live with Russia and Germany on their own.
Heavy domestic pressure? Give the citizens of Germany a vote on the matter. Energy/Heat/Gas/Oil or War
Wheat, fertilizer ingredients………….food.
Heavy pressure? From whom? The usual suspects. Liberal drooling unterventionists, Vreens and Liberal Democrats, and Christian Democrats dominsted by Vatican controlled Catholics. Nobody is asking what others think. Germany is the only place in Europe where pro-Russia demonstrations were held.
Skmeone is trying to deindustrialize Germany. If this keeps up and energy deals with Russia are cut off, Germany is heaxing into an economic disaster.
Who is Zelenski to snub Germany? He was told to
do it, of course. An indignity Germany has to swallow. It really does not. But younger generations have forgotten lesdinns of the past.
Is Germany going to step on that same rake for the third time.
It is not the drug addict porn comedian Zelensky who speaks. It is the Zionist cabal that is behind him that is not visible for the time being which speaks through him . The vengeance of these cabal will not be satiated untill Germany and Russia are finished off as nations. How ever much the Germans try to pacify and propitiate the cabal will of no use. So is the case with Russians
Ukraine’s first priority should be to mend ties with Russia.
That is a year overdue, and now crashed and burned.
They will need something far more dramatic to save whatever is left to be saved.
No, I don’t think they will even try. They are going the way of Poland’s Partition.
With Poland taking a share.
Soon there won’t be a Ukraine anymore, so problem solved.